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What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?

It feels the way to learn in the age of AI should be totally different. Eg I came across https://github.com/AsyncFuncAI/deepwiki-open and it's amazing at helping you quickly understand a repo. What other tools like this exist for github repos / books / PDFs / whitepapers / etc?

I'm trying to learn more about the operational side of tariffs.

- How do they get calculated? - Who calculates them and what tools do they use to calculate them? - When is the calculation done, and who pays for them?

What I'm imagining:

1. The Exporter want to ship something to America from Vietnam.

2. The shipping company loads it up and sends it to LA.

3. Item arrives at the Port of LA.

4. The Importer collects the item (or bulk items), and the port's tariff collectors inspect the shipment, calculate the tariff based on their valuation and tariff chart and charge the importer for the goods before they can be released.

Is that right? How does the importer determine the cost ahead of time - is there an online calculator? How does the import department ensure that the value of goods isn't being low balled?

Thanks!

Hey Frontend hackers! I’m building a site called ‘fronteer’ that will have real world frontend interview problems to practice. It will be continuously shaped by professionals who have been hired and startups who look for frontend based skills.

Just a landing page for now, although I’m building the community from my recent boot camp cohort.

Sign up and I’ll reach out to you to get to know what will drive more successful interviews!

here is the link btw:

https://fronteer.vercel.app/

I have submitted extremely clear photos of my identification and my utility bill but have received no information what went wrong. There was an appeal option, I chose it and was denied again without any explanation.

Now the google play console has zero option to upload any other documents or do anything at all to fix this issue.

I'm extremely confused on how to proceed. I have already paid $25 to be able to submit my app that I've spent an enormous effort on and have a longstanding google business account tied to a a custom domain that I've been paying.

How am I supposed to proceed?

Hey- I've been working on a minimalist tool called QuickPoint — it’s a minimal tool for quick text-first creation and sharing structured thoughts

https://quickpoint.me

But rather than push a vision, I’m here to learn what people actually need. I built a rough prototype and are watching closely how (or if) people use it.

I’d love your honest feedback: Please feel free to tinker about- and say whatever comes to mind. If you need to structure your feedback - I put some questions below. However- I'd rather just hear anything you have to say.

Does it feel like it solves anything you’d do in real life? What’s your first instinct about what this tool is for? What’s good and what's missing or broken in the concept itself?

Not trying to pitch- just trying to listen. Thanks in advance for any thoughts!

A bit about my, I'm early 30s frontend engineer w/ no degree who started working at FAANG. Before that I spent about 12 years working at agencies doing web dev, Drupal, wordpress, etc.

By week 2 at FAANG I'd gotten through the onboarding, figured out how to get my app running behind all the business security and policies, and started trying to work on a simple frontend React bugfix.

I'm struggling to make heads and tails of everything going up. I understand what processes exist and why at a theoretical level, but all the outdated documentation, random commands to input and feature flags to setup, etc. is literally driving me in circles. Also my team is VERY busy, so I've had to figure out everything on my own. I have the app working, but I cannot understand beginning to end how the frontend app works.

Also I'm feeling a strong sense of imposter syndrome. I'm the oldest engineer on my team, surrounded by a bunch of fresh 20 year olds 3 years out of college who's first job is FAANG. There's an air of non-egotistical elitism I just can't put my finger on, but as someone who dropped out of college so they could earn money and lessen the burden of their immigrant parents, I just feel like I really really don't belong.

Right now at work I've taken on a ticket that should be simple, but I just cannot understand why it's not working in the massive ecosystem and integrations that exists for this app.

Also on a sidenote, I'm a bit disappointed in the sense that I expected more from FAANG. The quality of the apps I'm seeing seems vastly technically overengineered, almost like 100 different hero engineers added their own "tricks" just to seem clever, make a name for themself, make everyone else's life harder, and then pat themselves on the back while writing extensive documentation about why their little chrome extension or alternative way of doing things solves X,Y,Z (while completely ignoring how convoluted and burdensome they've now made something that, while technically inconvenient, was utterly simple to understand prior).

Anyway, rant over. Anyone felt the same way starting at FAANG? Not sure if I'm gonna stick around.

I just got an email from VPNSecure saying that my account was deactivated (not that it will be). They (I don't know who) bought the company, but the previous owner didn't disclose the number of subscribers that were not paying for the service.

Here is a screenshot of the email:

https://postimg.cc/2b6krMjM

https://ctxt.io/2/AAB4W1goEg

One thing that's been recommended by my optometrist is to start wearing reading glasses at my desk for computer work. I work from home and spend a solid 8+ hours in front of the computer.

The only issue I have is that I struggle to remember to wear them. Actually, I'm not sure if it's even a memory thing. It's like they're right there on my desk, but I just don't put them on most of the time.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to overcome this?

I am looking for memory-safe languages that can be used for systems/graphics programming. I love Rust, but it often feels like too massive a language with too much stuff going on. Is there a language like C, which is simpler (obviously without all the UB and other problems)?

This is an especially hard ask, given how useful the FP-like features of Rust are, and I find it almost impossible to live without them. Basically, I am looking for a middle ground between C/Zig and Rust.

One such language I have found is Austral[0]. What other such languages are there?

[0] https://austral-lang.org/

I'm doing this Commodore-64 Compatible & Gameboy-compatible retro computer for retro gaming that is extremely affordable ($25, 50% off for early customers)

You can find details and how to pre order on the website: https://minicomputersoftware.netlify.app/

Hi,

I'm researching for my upcoming hackathon. In a short term, which MCP server do you wish existed but it’s not?

The hackathon aims to develop an AI MCP server, and I would be happy to get some ideas. Like Cursor and Figma communication or something. Thank you!

Our 5-year-old sometimes hits when he’s frustrated—usually in situations where he feels overwhelmed, ignored, or forced into something he doesn’t want to do. At home, we’ve been working on helping him name his feelings, pause before reacting, and repair after a mistake.

The real challenge is at school. When he hits or pushes (even mildly), the consequences are immediate and severe—being removed from class, suspension, etc. While I understand the need for safety and boundaries, these responses often don’t seem to help him learn better regulation. In fact, they sometimes make things worse by increasing his anxiety and reinforcing feelings of exclusion.

We’re trying to partner with the school, but it’s hard to find alignment between what’s developmentally appropriate and what fits the school’s behavioral model.

I’m looking for practical, effective strategies that have worked for you—especially things that build empathy or help with self-regulation.

Would love to hear from other parents, educators, or folks who’ve been through this.

My web hosting service renewed my subscription by charging my bank account through an expired debit card. Why do banks give payment processors such power? It’s ridiculous!

My leverage has always been to leave expired cards on file when I find it difficult to cancel a subscription. It's crazy that they can get around it.

With tariffs kicking in and imports slowing, I want to track the local impact at my grocery stores. Does anyone have any suggestions? Would scraping websites of local grocers be sufficient? Any prior art?

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Last time I "Asked HN", I was in a very different place. Fresh out of a bootcamp, right at the peak, and subsequent collapse of the Covid hiring. It didn't go well. However, another HN reader turned me on to Upwork, and over the last 2 years, I've been building modest freelancing career.

I came from an automotive background where I made awful money, moved to the Bay Area, became a bike messenger in San Francisco because I didn't know what to do with myself, and once again made awful money.

I had been a hobbyist programmer for years by this point, so I got sucked into the bootcamp racket. The program was great. I got what I needed out of it, although the certificate wasn't worth the paper it was printed on.

I landed an ongoing contract on Upwork, which I still work on which really changed everything for me. I also landed an internship at Akamai as a Cloud Support Engineer, which never resulted in employment, but I'm not sure it's the type of work that I really want to be doing. It was more of a foot in the door type thing for me.

Either way, I am now making a living off of software development. A lucrative living? no, but it works for my lifestyle.

Several years ago, we were all told "You don't need a degree bro, degrees are obsolete bro, companies only care about what you know".

I found out that this wasn't true the hard way, however now I at least have some professional experience to my name. The job market is bad for everyone right now. I'm not necessarily looking for a job ATM, but at some point, the grind and hustle of freelancing might either fizzle out, or I might just get tired of it.

Now that that's out of the way, here is my question...

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I've thought about doing an online CS degree. It seems like this can be done for less than 15 grand, and also doable while still making money.

Is this a bad idea? Is this a good idea? Is this necessary if I want to be employable in the future?

I'm 29. I just sold my company and received a low 7-figure payout — something I had worked towards for years. The next day, my remaining parent died. My other parent had already passed away a few years ago. Now, at 29, both my parents are gone. Because of the inheritance (which is larger than I expected due to how young they passed), combined with my company sale, I will likely never have to worry about money again.

Professionally, this was the greatest achievement of my life. Personally, this is the greatest loss. I have absolutely zero regrets about my relationship with my parents. They were amazing people, and we had an amazing relationship. I'm deeply grateful for that. I'm grateful, but I also feel very alone and a little lost. I’m not sure what to do next — with my time, my energy, or even with my life.

If anyone has been through something similar — or even if you haven’t — I'd appreciate any thoughts or advice. How do you figure out what's next when it feels like you’ve hit a strange high and low at the same time?

I'm looking for an email client for my mac. I find outlook to be too bloated, here are my requirements: 1) Multiple email address support (outlook and gmail accounts), ideally can show all inboxes in one place 2) Calendar 3) Sensible shortcuts - I'm considering learning/slowly dipping in and out of vim so would be open to similar shortcuts 4) Optional: Suggests events based of a message. If someone says lets make a meeting at 14:00-15:00 1/6/25 , I don't want it to hyperlink a phone number that is +14001500162025, I want to click once to make the meeting.

I'd rather stick with a client that will last the test of time that I really learn, than a new start up client. I really got into Arc Browser but now there aren't any more updates other than security.

I don't even use email a lot, I'm just a regular student, but find that I want to use outlook less each time I use it

Hi, all. I'm in a tough spot career-wise right now and would love some perspective from those who've worked in tech, have undergone a career change, or have some general life lessons they've found helpful.

About a year ago, I graduated with a software engineering diploma from a well-regarded Canadian technical institute. To be a competitive applicant, I re-took all my high school math, did well, and was accepted into the program, where I also achieved excellent grades. I was a mature student with a goal.

Some years before, I earned a Masters degree in the humanities and worked in the post-secondary and non-profit sectors. I decided to switch careers for a few reasons: I've always loved technology, I wanted to use it to contribute a positive difference in the world, and I thought it would increase my earning potential.

Unfortunately, I graduated at what seems to have been an all-time low point in the industry: the COVID tech bubble popped, and the wave of AI came crashing in.

I did get a contract job, for which I am grateful, and it was initially geared towards programming tasks. But it's since shifted almost entirely to what can only be described as glorified data entry.

This has been really difficult. The work I'm doing is uninteresting and doesn't leverage any of my skills in a meaningful way. I'm also earning the least amount I ever have professionally. I feel like I've taken a big step back, and it's had a pretty big impact on my mental health.

I've asked to take on more work, and even offered to take lower pay to work on programming-related tasks. A lot of staff are contract or part-time, so mentorship and training has been hit-or-miss.

Frankly, I've never felt less engaged and motivated in my life. My self-confidence has taken a big hit. Recently, I've been struggling to even do the work. This is difficult, because I know I have a lot to offer, I love to learn, I take great pride in doing good work, I enjoy contributing to a team, and so on. I have excellent references and have, I think, proven that I'm a motivated, hard-working person. I do think, with my background, that I have a unique set of skills that would greatly benefit an organization.

But, like many others, I can barely get an email back from jobs for which I apply. I follow up my applications with personal LinkedIn messages, and I've leveraged my network, but so far, to no avail.

I know I'm not alone -- a lot of people, especially in this industry, many with far more experience than me, are feeling the same. My heart goes out to everyone in such a position.

For the first time in a long time, maybe ever, I honestly don't know what to do. I feel lost and uncertain. Do I return to my previous career? Do I continue searching for a job in this field?

I'm trying to frame this as a blip in my life, a low point that will help me build grit and learn more about myself, and that's a good thing. I also know that, to some extent, I'm getting in my own way, that I'm afraid of doing what may be needed for me to take the next step, and this is part of the learning experience. All the same, it's uncomfortable to live through right now.

(I will note that I'm working on small projects in Go during my off-time, trying to maintain and build me skills.)

If you have any feedback, any advice, anything you've learned, I'd love to hear and learn from it. I deeply appreciate you taking the time to read this.

I got hooked on daily puzzle games like a lot of people, with Wordle and since then have been collecting them here and there. Most of my faves have been posted here by creators or fans, others I don't remember how I found them. Anyway, it's been a while since we've had a dedicated thread for people to share their favourites, but there are new ones coming out all the time, so I'm curious to know if there are any good ones I'm missing out on. I guess my only real criteria are that they are browser-based, mobile friendly, free to play and somewhat original. Below are the ones I regularly play:

From the NYT: Wordle, connections and the mini

https://wordchase.semantle.com guess the word guided by AI hints

https://travle.earth/ get from one country to another by passing through bordering countries

https://wafflegame.net/ drag and drop letters to make a "waffle" of words

https://imsqueezy.com/ insert letters to make other words, to form 3 words connected by a theme

https://truncate.town/ kind of an adversarial scrabble, PvP or against the computer

https://ziggurwords.com/ unscramble letters to find increasingly longer words

https://crosswordle.com/ a crossword/wordle hybrid

https://www.threemagicwords.app/ more word unscrambling

https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/ hard to explain - uncover a famous event in history by unwrapping nested clues?

https://www.omiword.com/ drag tiles within sectors to spell 4 common words

Am I missing any good ones?

Specifically in regards to interesting research, breakthrough, or even tidbits about medicine & human body. It could be in the form of blogs, newsletter, or forums.

If so, how?

Most niche job boards are for remote jobs, trying to find ones that are in any other niche. Do you know any?

There are so many models, and so many new ones being released all the time, that I have a hard time knowing which ones to prioritize testing anecdotally. What benchmarks have you found to be especially indicative of real-world performance?

I use:

* Aider's Polyglot benchmark seems to be a decent indicator of which models are going to be good at coding:

https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/

* I generally assume OpenRouter usage to be an indicator of a model's popularity, and by proxy, utility:

https://openrouter.ai/rankings

* LLM-Stats has a lot of charts of benchmarks that I look at:

https://llm-stats.com/

I live in NYC and I have about 6 years of experience. Out of the 4 jobs I've had, I loved one of them, but I just couldn't bear the rest. I love building software, and I've worked with a lot of great people, but the overall culture just isn't for me. I have been abused too many times. I don't know what to do now. And, I am worried that if I do enter another industry, it won't actually be different than where I am now. I don't have a degree, so I'm assuming I have to start from scratch. Some options I've been considering:

1. New career. Maybe a trade? Aviation maintenance? Nothing specific sticks out to me. 2. Move to another country. This was prev recommended to me after I mentioned my job didn't treat me like I was human - apparently European countries (Denmark, Sweden) are much better? 3. Find a new job. But, I don't know how to find one that I would like, if it is even possible. 4. Learn how to deal with a bad job. I don't know how to do this, or if it is even possible, or if it's a good idea. 5. Start my own company. I would love to do this. But, I don't have a lot in savings. Maybe I could try finding a part time job just to stay afloat?

What do you recommend?

I've been browsing a few (RISC-V related) System-on-Chip datasheets. Have seen 1000s of datasheets (ROM/RAM/discrete logic/peripherals, opamps, voltage regulators, etc etc) in my life. Some lacking essential info like Thermal Design Power (TDP), # of balls on the BGA package, etc. One (JH7100) including mention of the standards that were referenced. Nice! Another: lots of spelling errors (Chinese pulled through Google Translate?). Yet another: some value declared, but missing the unit. Yet another: upper/lower case all over the place, CamelCase looking tame in comparison (this seems commonplace though). Also: a simple dictionary of abreviations used. Not all readers are experts!

To be honest: nice looking tables, block diagrams etc do matter. They make a datasheet more readable, and yes "1 picture says more than 1000 words" is true to some degree.

In short: in your opinion, what makes a good datasheet? What should (or should not) be included? What are do's & don'ts when writing one? What's 'added value' in this context?